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Cement plant Salonit Anhovo has officially requested the Miinistry to increase klin dust production and the amount of co-incineration of waste. Higher production and waste co-inceneration brings additional burdens on our environment. We responded with an initiative to change the legislation, which would equate the norms for cement-co-incinerators with those that apply to specialized waste incinerators.
Together with Inštitut 8.marec, Eko Anhhovo submitted to the National Assembly a civil initiative to submit a Law - Protection Act, which would equalize the emission limit values for cement plants - co-incinerators with those that apply to specialized waste incinerators. We will submit the law to the parliamentary procedure as a civil initiative, so we will have to collect 5,000 certified signatures in the following months. Current environmental legislation allows cement plants-waste co-incinerators to have significantly milder operating conditions and extremely inadequate supervision.
With the project, we are responding to the call for the start of the collection of certified signatures of voters. In the coming days, it will be necessary to prepare content for the campaign, to start raising public awareness of the importance of the change in legislation, and to prepare everything necessary for work in the field in the next two months.
Target groups:
1. At least 5,000 voters from all over Slovenia to contribute a certified signature for submitting an initiative to amend the law
2. Parliamentary political parties and decision-makers who, after the expiration of the 60-day period, will decide on the adoption of the law initiative
A successful project will be an important step on the way to changing legislation and tightening environmental standards, which will protect the health of residents living near co-incineration plants and contribute to higher environmental protection.
Summary of project results
With this project, the EKO Society, which in cooperation with the March 8 Institute submitted to the National Assembly on 25 May an Initiative to Voters to submit a Bill amending the Environmental Protection Act, which would equalise the emission limit values for cement plants - co-incineration plants with those applicable to specialised waste incineration plants, is responding to the issue of the waste incineration plant in the Soča River Valley - Anhovo. The bill will be submitted to the parliamentary procedure as a civil initiative, and 5,000 certified signatures are being collected as part of the project. Current environmental legislation allows cement plants - waste co-incineration plants significantly milder operating conditions and extremely inadequate supervision.
Implementato of advocacy and awareness-raising campaign to collet over 5,000 cetrified signatures. Within the campaign the activities include participation at public events, round tables concernig the legislation, coleection of signatures, mobilization of voters/public, organization of at least two press conferences, etc..
The campaign helped to pass a law that severely restricts the co-incineration of waste in cement plants. After many years of efforts, we have managed to align the standards for co-incineration with those for waste incineration in specialized waste incinerators at a systemic level, which will have a positive impact on people living in the vicinity of co-incinerators. This means that after the transition period, there will be fewer harmful emissions into the environment, which will have a positive impact on human health and the environment.